Women in the Arab world are not realizing their full potential and are still denied equality of opportunity, says the Arab Human Development Report 2005: Toward the rise of women in the Arab world, arguing that this represents not just a problem for women, but a barrier to progress and prosperity
Merrill Lynch, one of the world's leading wealth management, capital markets and advisory companies, today announced that it has entered into a partnership with the Arab International Women’s Forum (AIWF).
The President of the United Nations General Assembly, a lawyer and rights advocate from Bahrain, has issued a strong call for addressing the social, educational and other constraints impeding the equality of women in the Middle East.
Some 40 women leaders, predominantly from the Middle East, recently defied regional disputes to participate in a three-day conference focusing on "Women Uniting for Peace" near the Cypriot port city of Larnaca.
Several dozen Palestinian television journalists protested Sunday in Gaza after a shadowy Islamist group threatened to decapitate female journalists who did not dress according to a strict Islamic dress code.
A female Afghan journalist was shot dead overnight, the interior ministry said Wednesday, in the second such killing in a week - crimes that have raised alarm among media rights groups.
Women business executives from Jordan, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, the Palestinian Territories, Saudi Arabia and Syria joined from 20-26 May 2007 to exchange best business practices and share personal experiences at Women Business Leaders Summit Programme in Washington, D.C.,
A Saudi family beat to death two Indonesian women workers in an attack that Human Rights Watch said Friday highlighted the government's failure to deal with employers who seriously abuse domestic staff.
“In the Arab region, women represent just nine per cent of parliamentarians. Though this figure is relatively low, it nevertheless represents a great step forward. Six years ago, the average was only four per cent,” pointed out IPU Secretary-General Anders B. Johansson.